April 16, 2026
KUKESPOST.COM and the Trial of Nderim Lushi for Free Speech Activity
I am Nderim Lushi, a citizen of the Republic of Albania and the co-founder of the online blog KUKESPOST.COM. In addition, I have organized a few years ago a petition against a certain policy undertaken by the Government of Albania which led to mass migration of thousands of Albanian citizens to the EU countries.
It is this petition indeed when my legal battle, or political confrontation you can call it, with the Government of Albania and the courts of law here started. While everything began almost as an insignificant incident, when I was arrested during a protest, things escalated and the whole battle took another shape when I experienced an enormous and unexpected level of ill-treatment and injustice by the Albanian courts, judges, and prosecutors.
Not only did this make me lose trust on the judicial system, which operates typically on the judicial principles and the model of the EU and the so-called British-American democracy, but also the utterly shock by the corruption of the legal system led me to change my approach to this legal battle – to look at it from a more political and ideological standpoint of view, and even by questioning the very foundations of the British democracy and the concept of the rule of law itself, that is to say, the political system enforced by the British Empire and the US Republic on a global scale.
As I was kept in custody for two weeks in 2015 and faced criminal charges, the whole judicial trial became political. Eventually I was acquitted of my criminal charges by the Court of Appeal of Shkodra as the Prosecution was exposed as a complete fraud and politically motivated.
While the process of this trial, which lasted more than two years, was an extraordinary experience in and of itself – I learned about the immorality of the judicial system, its deceptive techniques, the lack of credibility and professionalism supposedly claimed by a rule of law system, and all the extrajudicial threats, deception, distractions, and immoral maneuvers of the intelligence service agents of the Government of Albania, it became unambiguously clear to me that my trial was political, not merely judicial. This is exactly why I have chosen to defend myself politically, and not restrictively judicially.
And how much shocked was I when I came to realize that I was not the target of the corrupt local authorities only, but behind the entire process was the Embassy of the United States of America in Tirana, as well as the United Kingdom Embassy in our country. This took the battle to a whole new level: the very democratic agencies and political powers that proclaim to uphold the concept of the rule of law and democratic system itself were exactly the same ones leading the judicial crusade against me, and I am sure this is the case against many, many other ordinary Albanian citizens. The same US Embassy that initiated the famous judicial reform in Albania in 2016, it was the same US Embassy in Tirana that was leading the political persecution against me.
Although I was acquitted of all criminal charges, which were basically related to the freedom of expression, the political persecution of the Government of Albania, the US Embassy and that of the UK Embassy against me never ended. In fact, this proved once again that the criminal charges were not based strictly on the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, which is more or less a legal body imposed by the British and American Rulers, but those baseless criminal charges pressed against me were a disguised form of political persecution at the behest of the Embassy of the USA and the Embassy of the UK in Tirana.
Other forms of political persecution and ill-treatment that the Government of Albania and the above mentioned embassies use to oppress free speech and the right to criticize democratically the government include economic mistreatment, provocation through governmental spies and agents, paying cash and offering economic favors, including visas to the UK and the USA, to all relatives and family members in order to use them against the political target, without mentioning reputation damage by governmental spies.
Having no other alternatives to live a normal life, supposedly in a democratic country, due to all these difficulties imposed by the US and the UK Embassies – which seem to be the biggest enemies of free speech, as well as by the local authorities, including the Government of Albania, I decided to withdraw and live in my village where I was born, namely, in Shkinak, Kukes, Albania.
For the enemies of democracy and civilizational values and human rights, I mean, the US Embassy and King Charles’ Embassy in Tirana, living in the village, instead of abandoning my own country, as it is the case for hundreds of thousands of Albanians, seems to have opposed another vicious and covert governmental policy: to force people to abandon rural areas, perhaps something that has to do with a much larger global policy of human dislocation and attack on all forms of traditional economies.
In this regard, a year ago, when I was working on my land in the village where I currently live, preparing to plant crops and vegetables in order to secure my living, I received a letter from the Albanian Persecution Office of Kukes, the Republic of Albania, namely, by Prosecutor Vilma Kapaj, as she had initiated an investigation against me with relation to ‘hate speech.’ It was unbelievable how far the immorality, tyranny, and political barbarism of the US Embassy, the UK Embassy, and the Government of Albania had reached: a citizen living in a remote village of Albania, working, planting vegetables and growing crops in order to secure the basic living despite the political persecution, is under investigation for having used free speech?!
If this does not show how much the American and British democracy has been deteriorated, by showing their true nature, I do not know what else can reveal and expose their true face. While I was under the impression that the investigation was over, as I had attended two meetings with judicial officers of the Prosecution Office, Kukes, and got the picture that they had no prove to substantiate their claim, I received another letter from the Prosecution Office to appear to the court to seemingly request to discontinue the investigation – a letter formulated by an Orwellian language, almost to disturb me as soon as I start to work on the land in the spring, or to perhaps to remind me that I am under watch as a co-founder of KUKESPOST.COM
In other words, even though I received a letter to inform me of a court appearance which has to do with the request of the Prosecution Office to the court to discontinue the investigation, the process itself smells corruption, tricks, deception, and loaded with a political message.
The reason why I am mentioning the online independent blog KUKESPOST.COM is because during both meetings with the judicial officers, it was brought to my attention their concern that they have about this independent blog.
Again, this shows that my battle with the Prosecution Office of the Republic of Albania, with the US Embassy, and with King Charles’ Embassy in Tirana is a battle for free speech, the very democratic aspect of the modern state that the USA and the UK claim to protect and promote the most – this couldn’t be more hypocritical.
CONCLUSION:
The purpose of this letter is not to point the finger at a corrupt judge or prosecutor of the Republic of Albania, nor to simply make public my case, but to raise awareness about a deeper problem and more systemic form of injustice and political persecution which exists not peculiarly in Albania, but because of the British laws of Albania, and because of the political interference of the US Embassy and the UK Embassy in the Albanian judicial system.
So, the corruption and the political abuse which takes place in Albania is imported from and imposed by the so-called champions of the western democracy, that is, the USA and the UK.
Therefore, I hereby accuse publicly the US Embassy and King Charles’ Embassy in the Republic of Albania for having requested the latest investigation against me as the co-founder of KUKESPOST.COM.
In addition, I want to use my case and my personal experience to point out and to show the hypocrisy of the British-American Global Rule. They are not the champions of democracy and human rights, but the very enemies of such values and democratic principles.
The US Government is not concerned about the staggering number of the homeless Americans, the corruption in the American courts of law, the high debt that the American people are suffering from, high gas prices, the living which is becoming each and every day less affordable, and those millions of the American people who have no health insurance, but it has all the time and governmental budget to oppress people around the world, supress the freedom of expression, promote corruption, and use judges and prosecutors of other nations as political tools to persecute free people like myself.
I am more convinced than ever that the immoral activity of the USA and the UK in order to persecute citizens of Albania like myself is not an isolated case. On the contrary, through their infamous embassies and spy agencies, the USA and the UK are a threat to democracy and human rights, freedom of speech and the right to express person opinions publicly. They are not the leaders of the free world, but the corrupt and immoral actors of a medieval political system packaged with a modern façade, such as allies, democratic institutions, judicial independence, rule of law, the concept of legal advocacy, or independent prosecution service.
The judicial system promoted by the USA and the UK is in reality a travesty of justice and human rights. Their tyranny and political persecution of any free voice or political dissenter is concealed in the complexities of the judicial system and covered up by a very special judicial propaganda: a judicial system full of lies, deception, distractive rituals, ambiguous language, meaningless court rules and procedures, and massive body of abusive laws – all in all to embellish the medieval tyranny and barbarism of the US Government and the British Royal Family who seek to rule the world with an iron first.
My battle and the battle of millions of oppressed people is not with a corrupt judge or a controlled prosecutor who are no more than mercenaries, but with the enemies of freedom – with the US Communist Government and the British Royal Family.
At the same time, I am hopeful that justice will prevail, and that people in general demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed ones; they are not on the side of the US and British international policies of oppression and legal abuse, as it is the case in Albania.
Nderim Lushi
Albania
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